World's Earliest Figural Tattoos Found On 5,000-Yr-Old Natural Male and Female Egyptian Mummies Tattoos have been significant in several ancient cultures. The British Museum unveiled two ancient ...

Today's object: Mummy of Hornedjitef British Museum Mummy and coffins of a priest who lived over 1,000 years after Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great. Weekly theme: Making us human Looking at the ...

The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how ...

Telling history through things, whether it's a mummy's coffin or a credit card, is what museums are for and, because the British Museum has collected things from all over the globe, it's not a bad ...

I first learned about the British Museum’s Out of Hours tours while ... standard jockeying for position to see the Rosetta ...

The decision has garnered a variety of opinions. Unlike others, the British Museum of London said it "hasn't banned the use of the term 'mummy' and it is still in use across our galleries" but ...

Egypt is set to inaugurate the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the world's largest museum, on 3 July, CEO of the GEM Authority ...

Two artificial big toes – one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy – may have been the world’s ... the Greville Chester artificial toe on display in the British Museum, not only ...

You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK. Copy of Thomas Hilliker’s last letter Queensway Coronation Silk Windmill Hill Pot ...